The stories in Peter Carey's collection are bizarre, funny and chilling. Their landscape is exotic and surreal, an ominous near-future that has the distinct feel of contemporary life. Carey's narratives are an exhilarating blend of fable, fantasy and allegory in which, as in dreams, something odd and menacing takes control. Here are societies in which people gamble for new bodies in a genetic lottery or watch apprehensively as first buildings, then parts of the landscape, and eventually their neighbours, begin to ...
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The stories in Peter Carey's collection are bizarre, funny and chilling. Their landscape is exotic and surreal, an ominous near-future that has the distinct feel of contemporary life. Carey's narratives are an exhilarating blend of fable, fantasy and allegory in which, as in dreams, something odd and menacing takes control. Here are societies in which people gamble for new bodies in a genetic lottery or watch apprehensively as first buildings, then parts of the landscape, and eventually their neighbours, begin to dematerialise and vanish. Here is what happens when a miniature replica of a small town and its inhabitants assumes a more compelling reality than its original or when a group of fat men, ostracised by a revolutionary government, plot its overthrow.
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Add this copy of The Fat Man in History: Short Stories to cart. $44.34, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by distributed by Prentice-Hall I.
Add this copy of The Fat Man in History to cart. $85.00, very good condition, Sold by Flips Fine Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Greensboro, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by University of Queensland Press.
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Very good copy: vertical crease to front cover parallel to spine, w/ only mild cover roll; rubbed corners; spine uncreased; small crease to rear upper corner; still, a sound, clean copy. Rack-size w/ glossy illus card cover; 141 pages, 12 stories; #7 in Prose Series. quotes by Barry Oakley & Frank Moorhouse on back cover. cover painting by Jeffrey Smart.